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IGN UK Podcast #203: Ender's Game Special

IGN UK Podcast

IGN

Leisure, Video Games

4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2013

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

In this special edition of the podcast, we sit down with director Gavin Hood and producer Roberto Orci to discuss their new film Ender’s Game. Starring Harrison Ford, Asa Butterfield, Ben Kingsley, Viola Davis, Hailee Steinfield and Abigail Breslin, the film is based on Orson Scott Card’s bestselling science-fiction novel about a gifted 12-year-old who is trained to become earth’s ultimate military leader in the fight against an alien invasion. In this extended interview we discuss the difficulties of adapting such a beloved book and talk about working with big-screen legends Kinsley and Ford. We also discuss Orci’s forthcoming projects The Amazing Spider-Man 2 and reboots of Van Helsing and The Mummy, while Hood discusses the challenges he faced on the set of X-Men Origins: Wolverine. So enjoy this sci-fi themed edition of the pod, and rest assured it will be business-as-usual next week. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello and this week I'm joined by

0:05.3

Hello and welcome to the Igen UK podcast my name is Chris Tilly and this week I'm joined by

0:11.4

Absolutely no one. I'm all on my own here this week, which is a bit sad, but it's not a

0:16.7

tragedy because rather than doing a usual podcast, we've got a special treat for you, which revolves

0:21.8

around the movie Enders game. A science fiction film that's your

0:23.7

which revolves around the movie Enders Game, a science fiction film that's coming out in

0:25.5

cinemas next week. It comes out on Friday, October the 25th.

0:28.8

And it's an adaptation of the classic sci-fi novel about a brilliant and remarkably gifted 12-year-old who is trained

0:35.2

to become an ultimate military leader.

0:38.4

The film stars Harrison Ford, Sir Ben Kingsley, Viola Davis and Ace of Butterfield plays the lead character.

0:44.9

And we recently had the film's director Gavin Hood and producer Roberto Orsi into the office

0:50.4

to talk about the movie.

0:51.4

So this week we're going to play that that interview for you

0:54.4

in which we talk about adapting the book, we talked about the special effects, we talked

0:59.4

about the cast a little bit, and building the Battle Room Room which is the Zero Gravity Playground

1:04.1

where they play these futuristic games that test the trainees strategic and

1:08.3

physical abilities. So as well as talking about that move we also talk about some of their future projects

1:14.0

Bob's worked on The Amazing Spider-Man which just finished shooting and he's got Van Helsing

1:19.3

and the mummy reboots coming up so we talk a bit about that and we also talked to

1:23.2

to Gavin about the Wolverine movie that he made a few years ago that didn't go

1:27.6

entirely according to plan so yeah sit back and listen to what the guys have to say about Enders Game.

1:33.3

Hi this is Chris here and I'm with Gavin Hood, the writer director of Enders Game and Bob Orsy, the

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